March 2004 - Posts
As a kid I used to spend a lot of time in the car traveling from Minneapolis to the lakes country of Minnesota (near Detroit Lakes , if anyone cares). Two 4-hours trips a weekend was pretty normal. So what do you do with 6 kids crammed into a Suburban
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Tomorrow … next week … read: the next time I post. Specifying an integer range is one of the problems we need solve to have a reasonably robust task generator. It’s one thing to say that a property is assignable from an int, but another
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Yesterday we generated the fields and initializers, so today let’s move on to the properties. Let’s quickly look at an example input: <? xml version = " 1.0 " encoding = " utf-8 " ?> < Tasks > < Task Namespace = " ArrayTest
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GenerateField is pretty straight-forward .. here, just look: CodeMemberField GenerateField( MBFTaskProperty tp) { string privateName = string .Format("m_{0}", tp.Name); CodeMemberField cmf = new CodeMemberField (tp.Type, privateName); cmf.Attributes =
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Now that we’re all good friends with the CodeDOM it’s time to look at the far less interesting reason for this whole series … generating MSBuild tasks. Since we’ve implemented ITask and ITaskProperty it’s time to implement
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For those that asked – on a Friday “tomorrow” means Monday. J And a few people have asked “what does this have to do with MSBuild” – yeah, I suppose I’m a bit off topic but I’m trying to lay a little foundation
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Yesterday we introduced the CodeDOM and covered some fundamentals. Creating a namespace , a class , a member method and a method body. Today we’re going to cover conditionals. I know I promised loops too but conditionals is taking enough space that
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Yesterday we looked at a basic implementation of ITaskProperty – and I promised we start looking at the code generation today. We won’t be looking at the XML -> C# rendering but rather the CodeDOM and generating some basic expressions.
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Yesterday’s post was … well … boring. But a lot of software is boring so this really isn’t a surprise. Today’s will have a little more to it but still – we’re laying the foundation before talking about the more
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Yesterday we introduced the ITask interface. Today we’ll look at a simple implementation of the ITask interface. I’m not a big fan of reading to be people what they can read for themselves so let’s move on to the code… [Caveat:
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Last time we looked at the XSD file and a sample rendering from XML to C#. This time I’ll introduce the primary interfaces used in the rendering process. First we have an ITask. namespace GenTaskLib { public interface ITask { IList < ITaskProperty
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I'm still quite distracted by MSBuild. I'm also a big fan of code generation. Any time you can combine a few passions you should. If I could find a way to mix in some seafood, a Willamette Valley (Oregon) wine and a Dave Matthew's Band album believe me,
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